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“Just got off a healthcare coalition call with Senator Schumer. His message:
1. Grassroots pressure will determine whether this passes. 2. They’re not seeing nearly the response there was to the House bill. That needs to change. 3. It’s make or break this week. Unlikely McConnell will drag this on past next week because he wants to move on to tax cuts. 4. The following Senators are wavering and need to be flooded with contacts:
1. Heller is the most important (R-NV) (202) 224-6244 2. Collins (R-ME) (202) 224-2523 3. Murkowski (R-AK) (202) 224-6665 4. Capito (R-WV) (202) 224-6472 5. Cassidy (R-LA) (202) 224-5824 6. Flake (R-AZ) (202) 224-4521 7. Gardner (R-CO) (202) 224-5941 8. Portman (R-OH) (202) 224-3353 9. Cruz (yes, that Cruz - he’s facing a tough reelection battle) (R-TX) (202) 224-5922 10. Paul (R-KY) (202) 224-4343 11. Lee (R-UT) (202) 224-5444 12. Sasse (R-NE) (202) 224-4224
Share this list on social media and find people who live in those states and impress the urgency of this on them. Those phones need to ring like crazy starting today.”
please PLEASE call.
ONLY call your own senator, if they’re not yours you’re taking up time from their constituents who they’re more likely to take seriously.
(I heard similarly from Senator Schumer’s office but also talked to health care people on twitter who strongly recommend not contacting outside of your district.)
But yes, this is important and good. Please reblog.
I’m hearing people aren’t having any trouble getting through. Would it really cause a problem to call and BEG PEOPLE FOR OUR LIVES?
yh but if you look outside your own personal reasons for using this, laziness, it actually looks a really great and practical way to put on your socks if you have a disability that hinders you from otherwise being able so without someone there to help you
you do realise that there are people out there who literally have to travel door to door helping elderly people, disabled people and people with chronic illnesses to put on their socks? people are paid to help put on pressure socks to help with oedema? don’t you realise that if these people could have one of these tools, these caregivers could be doing something else and that this therefore is an incredible tool designed to cater for some of the most healthcare dependent people in our society? do you guys even realise there are other people living other lives?
i really wish i had this when my spine was broken and i had to wear a medical metal corset which made bending down impossible. i had to ask my mom to help me with socks and it was kinda humiliating.
My dad spends an hour in the morning getting dressed because he has no one to help him to get his socks on because his ankle is fused. If he had this it would literally save him an hour.
“Oh but people are so lazy!”
fuck off you ableist pieces of shit
Honestly I don’t even get how you could look at this and think “lazy”. This looks like more work for an otherwise able-bodied person than just putting their sock on the regular way. It’s pretty obvious this is meant for people who have trouble bending over, like come on.
You know how people go straight to “lazy” on this? Because we’re trained to think of most accessibility modifications as lazy. The disabled = lazy message is deeply embedded in our culture.
Does anyone know what this is called/where I could get it? My mom has incesingly bad arthritis and the process of bending to put her socks on is getting harder for her. My dad could totally put the socks on it for her at night and then in the morning she could just slip them on.
It appears to be the Pratiflex PR001. They claim that the Pratiflex PR002 is more versatile, though. They’re Brazilian products, and my Portuguese is not so hot (nor is Google Translate’s). However, the website is here and you can apparently order them online for the equivalent of approximately US$20 (not including shipping, etc.) for the PR001 or US$34 for the PR002.
The site says that they’re widely used in the States and Europe, but that they’re finally making them available in Brazil, so presumably you could find similar products from different companies elsewhere. A search for “sock applicator” turned up this Amazon.com category with several similar products, for example. From that page, this appears to be a good product, available for shipping in the U.S., for about $30.
So this is a teeny bit off topic, but there’s a group called the Tetra Society of North America, and if someone needs an assistive device and it isn’t commercially available yet, they have volunteers that are retired engineers and other design/handy types that will work together on solving a challenge you may have. They help make all kinds of things from adapted Wii remotes to specialized coffee pot handles to medical product adaptations. They are SO cool. This is their website: http://www.tetrasociety.org/
That’s not off-topic at all; I thought of this discussion immediately when I saw you post the link elsewhere.
This is also relevant to some of the discussions on your blog overnight, pardonmewhileipanic.
Riptide
is hiring paid sensitivity readers. Our SRs will read manuscripts with an eye
toward any potentially inaccurate, inauthentic, insulting, misrepresentative,
harmful, or *-ist themes, phrases, or actions in the text.
Sensitivity
readers must be a part of the culture(s) or identity/identities they are
reading for. Beyond this and the ability to express your thoughts via
the written word, there are no requirements or prerequisites. You can be living anywhere in the world, and will work from home.
This is an entry-level position with
no developmental editing, line editing, copyediting, or proofreading
involved and thus no experience required in those areas.
Pay
is
$1.50 per 1000 words. The average SR is able to read and comment as
necessary on about 10,000 words per hour, and thus makes about $15 an
hour. We recognize that this is not always the case, especially for some
neurodivergent or visually impaired readers, so when we hire SRs with
those backgrounds, we can individually discuss different methods of
calculating pay.
We
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and gender orientation, and mental and physical illnesses and disabilities.
However, at the moment, we have specific needs for sensitivity readers for manuscripts
that depict the following cultures and/or identities and/or disabilities:
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positive status
Liver
transplant patient
Little
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Australian
Please feel free to apply even if you don’t fulfill these specific needs, as our needs are ever-changing. But these specific needs are for manuscripts in production and are our highest priority.
Please
send:
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with education and pertinent editorial experience, if any
(we’re
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Statement
about all areas of experience and/or identity
Reblogging because we forgot to mention time commitment. The average manuscript runs about 70,000 words, which means it will take the average SR about 7 hours to complete. (Of course, some mss are much longer or much shorter, but all will fall within the 20,000 to 120,000 word range.) There is no minimum number of manuscripts you need to be available for to apply.
Some SRs may only fit our needs for one manuscript. Some SRs we use over and over again, as their lived experiences match a number of mss we publish each year. How much work we offer you is heavily dependent on the nature of the mss in our pipeline, but how much work you accept is entirely up to you. Turning down a manuscript is totally okay–if you fit the needs of a future ms, we’ll still ask you again :)
So if you know you don’t have a lot of time, but think you might like to work on even just a single manuscript at some point in the future, please go ahead and apply. If you think you’ll want to work on a lot of mss, please definitely apply, but know that this will not be anywhere near steady work (six to eight mss a year is about the maximum we’ve experienced for any one reader so far, and many readers won’t get any work at all for long blocks of time if there are no mss in our pipeline that fit their experiences). Most of our SRs are students or work full time jobs, and do their reads on a free day or evening or weekend. So even if free time is tight and sporadic for you, if you think you’d be interested in this work when you do have free time, write in and tell us about yourself!
